Exhibition “Conversations”
The exhibition “Conversations” is an ode to the simple kind of conversations where you reach out and share something with someone, dwelling in our physical world for a while. A place where you care about your interlocutor and where silence itself matters. A space where you feel the pressure of your feet against the soil, the wind on your nose, the shadow of all those tiny leaves above your head. A place in time where small gaps in everyday life don’t necessarily have to be filled with digital entertainment. A pause. A doze. Before you might return to the vast landscapes of the internet again.
In a time of countless social channels available, we should be able to reach each other easily. And when photos and images are spread with the speed of light, we will be soaked in inspiration and ideas to go explore our world?
Those channels, though, slip into hours of scrolling, tons of content and countless push notifications to alert you if you seem off trying to be present somewhere else. After two hours of scrolling a never-ending feed, you might question the label “social”. And if all those clips, memes and images presented on the surface of a thin glass screen seem more interesting than anything around you, the “inspiration” will be stuck there, and you will not turn it into something in the real world. If the internet goes down so does your feed.
The classic conversation in which you speak to a person in front of you and listen to her response seems to have been put aside, maybe in favor of texting and filming. But what happens when your brains attention is constantly hijacked by an unknown someone else’s constant stuff flickering past? Stuff you do not care about, stuff that does not care about you. Will you stop caring?
Artist Josefin Gustafsson
Josefin Gustafsson (b. 1985) is an artist and architect based in Stockholm. Her work is centered on the contrast between the sublime and the everyday, with a focus on people and their architecture. Josefin studied at the Stockholm School of Printmaking Arts (2005) and holds Master’s degrees in architecture from ENSA-V, Paris (2010) and KTH, Stockholm (2012).
Opening Hours
22 January 16-20
24-25 January 13-17
7-8 February 13-17
12 February 13-20
21-22 February 13-17
